In this interview Dr. Jelle Seilinga de Boer discusses topics including: childhood in Indonesia and time in concentration camps separated from his mother; escaping to Holland; attending special steam schools; attending a freemason boarding school; studying geology at Utrecht University; work on paleomagnetism; working at Wesleyan from postdoc onward; work with the United Nations; work with colleague Jim Balsey; effects of the Vietnam war on campus; work as a joint professor at University of Rhode Island; discoveries at the Oracle in Greece; geological research for nuclear power plants; change in Wesleyan administration and student body over the years; minority representation in the sciences; general issues of diversity among Wesleyan students and faculty; process of retirement; current work on the School Readiness Council in Middletown; work on researching treatment of black soldiers in WWII